Add One or More Harvesters

Add one or more Harvesters to enable data to be processed and displayed.
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Add one or more Harvesters to enable data to be processed and displayed.
We recommend registering Network Flow Analysis (NFA) and setting up the domains before you add any Harvesters.
Follow these steps:
  1. Log in to
    NetOps Portal
    .
  2. Open the
    Harvester
    page:
    1. Hover over
      Administration, Data Sources
      , and click the
      <NFA-Data-Source>
      option.
    2. Click
      Harvester
      in the
      Configuration Settings
      section.
      The
      Harvester
      page opens and displays the current list of Harvesters.
  3. Click
    Add
    .
    The
    Add Harvester
    dialog opens.
  4. Enter the following information:
    • IP Address
      Address of the Harvester server.
    • Description
      Identifying text about the Harvester, which appears in the Harvester page table.
    • Domain
      Parent tenant and domain combination for the Harvester and for any routers and interfaces that begin to supply data to the Harvester.
      Changing this setting affects the tenant-domain association for new routers that begin exporting flow data and any new interfaces that begin generating flow.
      In a multi-tenant environment, the Harvester tenant affects which SNMP profiles are available for routers to poll interfaces.
      The domain affects which operators and reports have access to the data from routers and interfaces.
      This option is visible only in an environment that contains multiple domains.
  5. Click
    Save
    .
    The new Harvester is added and appears in the Harvester list, provided that the IP address passes the connection test. If the test connection to the web service fails, an error message opens.
    The usual process is to add one or more Harvesters, then configure the router interfaces to export flow to the Harvesters. If you configure the routers to export flow to the Harvesters first, the NFA console immediately begins to collect data from the new Harvester. In this case, the domain for the routers is set at the time you add the parent Harvester.
Make sure the Harvesters you add have not been deleted from the
Harvester
page previously. To add a Harvester instance successfully in Network Flow Analysis (NFA) after deleting it, the Harvester installation server must be re-imaged and the Harvester software must be re-installed.
For more information about managing Harvesters, see Manage a Harvester in the
NetOps Portal
documentation.